This series of 1-hour demonstration sessions are scheduled online during a typical lunch hour. They deal with a variety of advanced topics in Canvas such as large enrollment classes, rubrics, and integrations. To view the upcoming session topics and course descriptions, visit the Learning Resource Network and search for “Canvas Brown Bag.”

Are you looking for a basic overview of Canvas (Penn State’s Learning Management System)? This 1-hour demonstration session will introduce you to the fundamentals of Canvas at Penn State. You will walk away with best practices and resources for using Canvas to facilitate teaching and learning.

This course can be delivered online via Zoom or in-person as a 1 hour demonstration session.

Do you want to use multiple methods to measure students' mastery of your course content? This 2.5-hour hands-on session will prepare you to design and deliver a variety of assessments in Canvas. You will walk through the steps for creating assignments and quizzes and explore quiz settings that determine how students interact with questions and review and receive feedback.

Every Canvas course should be built on a solid foundation of well-organized content. During this 2.5-hour hands-on session, you will begin constructing that foundation for one of your Canvas courses. Specifically, you will build a course structure with Modules, add Pages, upload files, and explore options for building a Course Home Page and Syllabus.

Are you looking for ways to speed up your grading processes? Would you like to quickly provide feedback or message students about a specific assignment? During this 2.5-hour hands-on session, you will learn to use the Canvas Gradebook for grade management and reporting. Explore how to organize and view grades, utilize SpeedGrader for grading and feedback, and pull grades from Canvas into LionPATH.

Snow day? Are you or your students sick? Students missing prerequisite skills? With Kaltura and Zoom, you can breathe easy knowing you can recover lost class time. In this session, participants will learn strategies to keep students engaged and accountable for missed material. Create reusable lectures with automatic chapters and slides allowing students to find exactly what they need, when they need it. Learn to use Kaltura Capture to create picture-in-picture videos giving students the flexibility to personalize the viewing experience. Create Video Quizzes to ensure that students are engaged and interacting with your lecture recordings.

Do you have videos, images, or audio files to share with students? Learn how to share your media using Kaltura, Penn State’s new media management and streaming service in this one-hour demonstration session. Explore Kaltura’s key features and capabilities within Canvas, discuss ways video is being used in higher education, and discover which Kaltura tools are best suited for your needs.

Objectives

Identify ways you can use Kaltura to create and share media in your courses

During this session, participants will learn about their options for uploading and sharing media, and collaborating on media or media collections within Penn State’s Media management and streaming service, Kaltura MediaSpace. Participants will learn about how to share individual items to be worked on collaboratively with others and how to create channels for a variety of audiences.

Objectives

Upload and share existing media using Kaltura MediaSpace

Collaborate on individual media items in MediaSpace

Create, customize, organize, and add members to a channel in Kaltura’s MediaSpace

Innovate your teaching by integrating Kaltura media and tools into your courses. Integrating the Kaltura learning tools allows students and instructors to create and share media content within Canvas. During this 90-minute hands-on session, participants will learn how to add the Kaltura learning tools to their courses, build a Media Gallery to support learning, and explore how to update content and assignments by adding Kaltura media components.

Want to assess learning or gather information in a more unique and engaging way? Enter Kaltura Interactive Video Quizzes! Learn how to use Kaltura, Penn State's new media management and streaming service to create and share video quizzes. Through demonstration and hands-on elements, you'll leave this session with a new way to engage your audience!